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Eric Priezkalns

During his career, Eric has been a Director of Risk Management for a national telco, the Chief Executive of the Risk & Assurance Group, a Chief Marketing Officer for a software business, a consultant, a public speaker and the publisher of Commsrisk since its launch in 2006. Look here for more about the history of Commsrisk and the role played by Eric.

The comms providers that Eric has worked for include Qatar Telecom, Cable & Wireless, T‑Mobile, Sky and Worldcom. In addition to his proficiency at speaking about the current scamdemic, Eric is also a qualified chartered accountant and a subject matter expert in consumer protection, enterprise risk management, fraud prevention, data integrity and billing accuracy. Eric was the lead author of Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers, published by CRC Press. He can be reached through the contact form on this website.

Articles by This Author

Do the Subex Shuffle

Take a break from all the doom and gloom by watching the amazing dancing antics of hundreds of employees of Subex, the Indian business assurance vendor.

YouTube Video Advertises Illegal Simbox Profits

There are YouTube videos that brazenly explain how to commit simbox fraud and evade the legal consequences, even warning criminals not to use cheap Chinese gateways!

Nuno Pestana, WeDo Technologies

Nuno Pestana is a Senior Product Specialist at WeDo Technologies. He has worked for WeDo since 2002, and so has gained broad experience...

EY Revisits Top 10 Telecom Risks

EY surveyed telcos about major risks in 2014. This follow-up report is not a survey; it is not much of anything.

Spring Agenda for Risk & Assurance Group

The agenda for the 10th March RAG meeting features 4G, password security, video streaming, RA for utilities, VAT fraud and more.

Karel van der Lecq, AdaptiveMobile

Karel van der Lecq is responsible for African sales of AdaptiveMobile, the world leader in mobile network security.AdaptiveMobile protects 2.1 billion subscribers worldwide, and...

Commsrisk Top Ten for February 2016

What stories grabbed the attention of your peers? These Commsrisk articles received most unique hits during February.

How Collaboration Becomes a Problem

A paper in the Harvard Business Review shows how collaboration can be dysfunctional. We need to understand the pressures in order to address the associated risks.

Alex Quilici, YouMail CEO

Alex Quilici is the CEO of YouMail, developers of voicemail and robocall-blocking software. He will join us at RAG Kansas to talk about...

Lookout’s Cybersecurity Predictions 2016-19

CTO Kevin Mahaffey forecasts some interesting developments for mobile devices and security solutions.

Yann Metdepenninghen, FraudBuster

Yann is the Chief Operating Officer at FraudBuster, the supplier of anti-fraud solutions aimed at simbox bypass fraud for voice and SMS, monitoring of...

Joe Villarreal, Openet

Joe Villarreal is the Product Leader for Openet’s Audits and Controls Solution.Joe joined Openet after 37 years with AT&T, where he held positions of...

The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard


Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.

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